Sherry Phillips, chair– teaches and practices Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, which is a form of touch therapy that decompresses the central nervous system. It is about presence and awareness  of what is arising in the system. It is this moment to moment  creation that resembles the creation of art. She draws on the vast environment of the Florida Keys and the American Southwest in her glass art creations of stained glass, mosaics and fused glass. Her love of hiking and the outdoors takes her and her dog to northern New Mexico each summer. The rest of the time she can be found in Big Pine Key with her husband where together they run Ichabod Crane Service.



Tom Butler, vice chair- a Key Largo resident, has extensive international business and cultural involvements. He served as president of Westinghouse for Mexico and for Latin America, as well as in numerous assignments managing subsidiaries in Brazil and Venezuela. He speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese as well as English after 13 years of residence in Latin America. Wherever he lives, the performing arts benefit from his participation and administrative skills. His community service spans the western hemisphere. In Brazil he was president of the American Society, a founding member of the Jeffrey Pike Orphanage, as well as president of the Sao Paulo Strolling Players and the Rio De Janeiro Little Theatre. He served on the New York-based Council of the Americas board of directors. In the Florida Keys, Butler has served as a director with the Key Largo Key Players and on the Florida Keys Council of the Arts advisory board and as Commodore of the Upper Keys Sailing Club. His chief interest in getting more involved with the FKCA is to work towards the creation of a Performance Arts Center in the Upper Keys.

Judy Harris, secretary– is from Chicago and professionally has served as both an Education and a Museum Administrator. She first visited the Upper Keys in the early 70s, and it has since become home for many years. Judy and her husband enjoy traveling, the arts, golf and tennis. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Susanne Woods, treasurer - Susanne retired in 2006 as Provost and Professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts and moved to Sugarloaf Key where she has co-owned a home since 1998. She spent twenty years at Brown University, where she was Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty. In between she spent eight years at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English, and during this period she also served for three years as chair of the Cultural Council of Lancaster County. She has written extensively on poetry and poetics.   Her PhD in English and comparative literature, with a specialty in renaissance, is from Columbia University.

Dr. Shirley Freeman
Key West; FKCA founding member; former Mayor, Monroe County; retired (20 years) Monroe County school administrator

June Girard
FKCA Board 1999 - 2006, Chair 2002 - 2004, Patron of the Arts

Bill Andersen
Key West; President, The Andersen Firm: A Professional Corporation, Attorneys at Law; FKCA Board Chair 1999 - 2002